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A. Thomas Hamlet

It is a pity that the essay by Jeremy Commons and Peter Murray, included in the original LP booklet, was...

Reviewed in issue 5/1993

Mozart Wind Concertos

Director and fortepianist Jos van Immerseel is a veritable pioneer of period Mozart. Belgian period-instrument orchestra Anima Eterna’s exuberant performances...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 8/2006

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4; Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 2

Early Rubinstein can be as winged and free-spirited as Ariel himself. The first release of the first of no fewer...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1999

Chopin Piano Works

Though in his late forties, Alexei Lubimov (one of the last pupils of the renowned Heinrich Neuhaus) is still enough...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 7/1993

Diepenbrock Orchestral Works

The neglect of Alphons Diepenbrock (1862–1921) outside Holland is I suppose understandable, though a pity. He wrote no symphonies or...

Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 8/1990

Dvorák (The) King and the Charcoal Burner

Gerd Albrecht and his Cologne Radio forces have given us fine recordings of rare Dvorák works. Here they add one...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/2007

Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartets Nos 3 and 4

The first two in Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s cycle of 10 Naxos quartets (A/04) presaged great things, an impression amply...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 6/2005

Mozart Violin Sonatas, Vol 5

Among the most attractively performed pieces here is the C major Sonata, K403, a work Mozart never completed. It was...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 7/2008

Kubalek Piano Recital

In the CD booklet Dorian Recordings make much of their concern for high fidelity and of the special acoustic qualities...

Reviewed in issue 10/1989

Scriabin Symphony No. 1; Prometheus

It was, I believe, Oscar Wilde who said that all bad poetry is sincere – a harsh grain of truth...

Reviewed in issue 1/1996

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